History Final 1302

the League of Nations

The United Nations was formed after World War II as the successor to which failed organization?

Gerald P. Nye

The United States Senator who led the noninterventionists in Congress and called for neutrality legislation in the 1930s was ________.

The Soviet Union

The United States and which other nation emerged as the world's two dominant superpowers after World War II?

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The ______________________, which prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, and religion, also prohibited, discrimination on the basis of sex

It saved lives by ending the war more quickly.

According to President Truman, what justified the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

preventing the spread of Communism in Europe

After World War II, the United States hoped to accomplish which of the following goals by establishing a presence in West Germany?

isolating them in special camps

After declaring war on Japan in 1941, the U.S. government dealt with Americans of Japanese heritage by doing which of the following things?

China

After the United States entered World War II, immigrants from which of the following countries became eligible for U.S. citizenship?

It placed an embargo on trade with Japan.

Before entering World War II in 1941, the United States took which of the following actions?

pesticide use

Biologist Rachel Carson focused her research on which environmental aspect?

worked in factories and plants

During World War II, American women did which of the following in greater numbers than before?

to keep production going by not striking

During World War II, unionized workers agreed ________.

It created higher deficit spending levels.

How did World War II bring an end to the Great Depression?

They took the place of men in many war industries.

How did life change for American women during World War II?

to protect itself against aggression from the Axis powers

How did the United States justify entering World War II?

Jonas Salk

In 1952, the first vaccine for polio was developed by which scientist?

Little Rock, Arkansas

In what city was the high school where the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education first challenged in 1957?

segregation in the United States

The "Double V" campaign concerned victory over the Axis powers and which American issue?

overthrow the communist government of Cuba

The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt by the United States to do which of the following?

The Black Panthers

The African American group that advocated the use of violence and espoused a Marxist ideology was called ________.

1965

The Civil Rights Act that outlawed literacy tests and other obstructions to voting rights was passed in which year?

More people began entering the United States illegally.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 led to which of the following unintended consequences?

to assist the United States' historical allies

The Lend-Lease Act was created for which of the following purposes?

Marshall plan

The Truman administration tried to help Europe recover from the devastation of World War II with the ________.

Plessy v. Ferguson

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education invalidated which previous Supreme Court ruling?

Barry Goldwater

Which individual is considered to be the founder of the modern American conservative movement?

the Beat Generation

Which movement in American literature challenged the standards and values of traditional American culture after World War II?

the invasion of western Europe to draw German forces away from the Soviet Union

Which of the following demands did the Soviet Union make of Britain and the United States?

He sought a peaceful coexistence with the United States and other nations.

Which of the following descriptions of Nikita Khrushchev best exemplifies how he differed from his predecessor Joseph Stalin?

American families began to have more children.

Which of the following factors contributed most to population growth in the United States after World War II?

Iwo Jima

Which of the following islands had to be captured in order to provide a staging area for U.S. bombing raids against Japan?

national healthcare

Which of the following pieces of Truman's domestic agenda was rejected by Congress?

to de-criminalize the use of birth control

Which of the following was not a founding goal of NOW?

Rodolfo Gonzales

Who founded the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado in 1965?

to provide greater resources for the military

Why did the U.S. government begin rationing food, fuel, and other goods during World War II?

Medicaid

________ was Johnson's program to provide federal funding for healthcare for the poor.

live and work on farms

Under the bracero program, Mexican citizens in the United States were able to do which of the following?

the Central Intelligence Agency

Which U.S. government agency was formed as a response to the news that the Soviet Union had detonated a nuclear device?

Joseph McCarthy

Which U.S. senator led a hunt for Communists within the U.S. government in the early 1950s?

the National Defense Research Committee

Which agency was created before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

the Warsaw Pact

Which alliance was formed as a reaction to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

the Cuban Missile Crisis

Which conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly resulted in a third world war?

France

Which country received economic assistance through the Marshall Plan?

Japanese forces were being aggressive towards the United States.

Which event was most integral to the United States' justification for entering World War II?

Fair Deal

Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the ________.

outlaw poll taxes

Kennedy proposed a constitutional amendment that would ________.

the Tet Offensive

Many Americans began to doubt that the war in Vietnam could be won following ________.

allowing oneself to be arrested instead of following unjust laws

Martin Luther King, Jr. would most likely have condoned which type of protest?

Alan Freed

The disc jockey who popularized rock and roll was ________.

in Nassau County, New York

The first Levittown was built ________.

Sputnik

The name of the first man-made satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, was ________.

sit-in

The new protest tactic against segregation used by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 was the ________.

Bracero program

The program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers during World War II was the ________.

quarantine

The term Kennedy chose to describe his sealing off of Cuba to prevent Soviet shipments of weapons or supplies was ________.

It provided Britain and France with weapons and supplies.

What did the United States do as a means of avoiding direct combat in World War II?

More colleges and universities were built in the United States.

What ultimately happened as a result of the Baby Boom that followed World War II?

They were able to obtain business loans at reduced rates.

What was one benefit that American soldiers received under the G.I. Bill?

Students for a Democratic Society

What was one of the major student organizations engaged in organizing protests and demonstrations against the Vietnam War?

ending poverty and discrimination

What was the central intention of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society?

No battles were fought and no attacks were made on U.S. soil.

What was the main reason the United States did not experience the same difficulties its European allies experienced after World War II?

containment

What was the policy of trying to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad?